Archives - 21 October 2017, Saturday

Across many coffee companies, it seems that only one type of barista is championed. How many of us, when gearing up for competition season, approach each barista individually to encourage and gauge interest in competing or judging? How much do we invest in ensuring our cafés are safe ...

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Slice the avocado open. Remove the seed and peel. Place the avocado (minus the seeds and peel) into a jar. Add the rest of the ingredients to the jar (ice cubes, coffee, sweetened condensed milk, other milk). Blend everything together. I use an immersion blender, but whatever you have...

Coffee Kids is diving deep into the most pressing issues facing the coffee sector with industry specialists, roasters, field staff, and more. Stay tuned to this space for new interviews and stories with the beings behind the coffee bean! Kitti Murray, Founder & Executive Director of R...

We are about amazing coffee, kind people, and cozy spaces. We have a robust portfolio of Direct Trade partners and coffees, and a vision to make coffee better in terms of quality, sustainability, and equity. We need full-time coffee professionals to make this vision a reality. If you...

Representatives and founders of the companies receiving Intel Capital investments are shown during presentations and product demonstrations at the 2017 Intel CEO Showcase on Oct. 19, 2017, in San Francisco. Intel Capital announced investments of more than $60 million in 15 technology ...

Put the butter, sugar, raw cane sugar, salt, vanilla extract and egg yolk in a bowl and mix the ingredients with a rubber scoop. Add flour and knead it to a firm dough. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and let it sit in the fridge for about one hour. Step 2 Dust your workspace with flou...

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Getting academic in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is hardly anything new; the home to both Harvard University and MIT, Cambridge is home to some pretty big brains. But applying this sort of intellectual rigor to coffee may not be as much of a given. Enter Broadsheet Coffee Roasters, Cambr...

Enjoy the art of a Nespresso Grand Cru coffee at one of our Boutique Tasting Bars. Coffee specialists are on hand to make you one of our Grands Crus with our innovative coffee capsules and machines, while guiding you through the full Grand Cru coffee range and answering your questions...

Moving on towards downtown Phoenix, we arrived at Conspire . Wow, what shock factor! It was a small, older home, converted into a coffee shop, with very limited seating and entirely covered with graffiti, um correction, murals on the outside. From top to bottom it was covered in artwo...

In an announcement from the Allegra Foundation sharing the fundraising results, the group shared some interesting insight into the UK coffee market. Allegra also operates the market-research-focused World Coffee Portal , and the group said that last year 1,222 new coffee shops — that’...

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Amavida Coffee Roasters, with headquarters in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, was named Roast’s 2018 Micro Roaster of the Year, with a total output of 90,000 pounds of roasted coffee in 2016. Amavida is a certified B Corporation and a Florida Benefit Corporation, two designations that atte...

“By implementing and working with the WCR Verified technical protocols, producers on seed farms and nurseries will be able to maintain efficient management systems to ensure that their production has robust traceability and genetic purity,” WCR said in an announcement of the program l...

For the ganache filling, add the chocolate to a heatproof bowl. Bring 2 1/2 cups cream to a simmer in a medium saucepan. Pour the cream over the chocolate and let the mixture sit for 1-2 minutes. Add the vanilla and whisk to combine until the mixture is glossy and smooth. Cover with p...

Expert jury at United Nations evaluated the world’s highest quality coffee lots grown in nine countries New York, NY, October 17, 2017 – After rounds of blind tastings at the United Nations by an international independent jury of top culinary and coffee experts, illycaffè, the global ...

In shade plantations, dead leaves from the overstory trees provide nutrients to the coffee. In sun plantations, these nutrients are not available, so fertilizers must be used, especially nitrogen (since many traditional overstory trees are nitrogen-fixing legumes). Sun coffee farms le...

Looking for a pasta dish with a little more flair? Italpasta also offers a wide range of pastas for baking in our Tradizionale recipe, spinach, and whole wheat. We've also created our Presto Oven Ready line, to help make classic lasagne and cannelloni recipes in half the time. For tha...

The Original. Original Lemonade is the centerpiece and inspiration behind all of the Calypso Lemonade, Limeade and Teamonade brand families. When we started the Calypso Lemonade line, the focus was on quality ingredients and making a Lemonade that was refreshing and irreplaceable. We ...

But as the plots move away from coffee as their center, they seem far more interesting (at least to a coffee bro who hasn’t seen the movie). In Belgium, an Arab storekeeper’s search a “beloved antique coffee pot” that was stolen leads him “a troubled young man” and his “virulently rac...

Examining mental health in the workplace is not new. However, in the service industry in particular, the amount of emotional labor performed in a high-stress environment can make for a devastating, perfect storm that affects one’s health. One Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...